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Brutal: Tom Coburn quits the Gang of Six (tick tick tick)
Hot Air ^ | 5/17/11 | Allahpundit

Posted on 05/17/2011 6:07:21 PM PDT by hatfieldmccoy

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To: Cicero

What candidate is even talking about eliminating agencies? Oh it is the Kooks. Paul and Johnson.


21 posted on 05/17/2011 7:11:02 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: vette6387

“Both Chambliss and Crapo need to be primaried.”

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!


22 posted on 05/17/2011 7:26:13 PM PDT by abcc2011 (Christian and conservative.)
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To: vette6387
Both Chambliss and Crapo need to be primaried.

Ditto, Amen, Amen, Amen!!!

23 posted on 05/17/2011 7:38:39 PM PDT by Dengar01 (Go Bulls!!!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Coburn is not a conservative.

Coburn voted for TARP & was a founding member of this "Gang of 6" mess.

Coburn is a McCain in training.
24 posted on 05/17/2011 7:47:25 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: baiamonte

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.”

The Democrats have created this hellish nightmare and it is up to fiscally responsible Conservatives to remember the REPUBLIC screw the DEMOCRACY and shut down the corrupt power grabbing Democrats once and for all...


25 posted on 05/17/2011 7:58:14 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Only an ignorant American would vote for a Liberal.)
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To: Typical_Whitey
The Democrats have created this hellish nightmare and it is up to fiscally responsible Conservatives to remember the REPUBLIC screw the DEMOCRACY and shut down the corrupt power grabbing Democrats once and for all...

Best post of the thread, AMEN!!!!!

26 posted on 05/17/2011 8:26:33 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: gidget7
From an earlier thread:
If the U.S. Constitution was designed to prevent the government from having too much power, how did we end up with a government that controls just about everything in our lives?

Because of three groups of people and five tendencies all too familiar to the founding fathers:
The three groups:
1. Those who want to live off the labor of others.
2. Those who want to control the lives of others.
3. Those who are productive and want to be left the hell alone.
The five tendencies:
1. People in group 2 promise people in group 1 a cut of the loot if they enable them to spoliate people in group 3.
2. People in group 2 can rely upon people in group 1 to respond to envy and people in group 3 to be manipulated by pitching something as a public good or by characterizing their reluctance to fund the scheme as miserliness against the "needy" in group 1.
3. People in group 3 are so busy trying to be productive and take care of their own lives and dependents that they don't pay enough attention to the collusion between the moochers in 1 and despoilers in 2.
4. Small-time number 2 people, known as criminals, rely on robbery or fraud to separate people in group 3 from their products of labor and don't really give a rat's ass about people in 1.
5. Big-time number 2 people, known as statist politicians, rely on the force of law to extort from people in group 3 the products of their labor, while paying off people in group 1 for their support in attaining public office and staying there. They also don't give a rat's ass about people in group 1 except to have as many as necessary to keep themselves in office but not too many lest they not have enough people in group 3 to keep the whole thing running.
The founding fathers warned that lack of vigilance would enable the group 1 and group 2 parts of society to enslave and impoverish the group 3 people who actually produce everything. The answer is to take the government back from the abusers in group 2 and use it to cut them and those in group 1 off at the ankles.

27 posted on 05/17/2011 8:46:03 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

Excellent!


28 posted on 05/17/2011 8:51:15 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: aruanan

The three groups:
1. Those who want to live off the labor of others.
2. Those who want to control the lives of others.
3. Those who are productive and want to be left the hell alone

RIGHT ON


29 posted on 05/17/2011 8:55:25 PM PDT by politicianslie (Obama thinks you're a fool)
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To: hatfieldmccoy

Can’t figure out that “cuts” won’t get the job done. Its time to amputate...a few Federal Agencies ...just for starters.


30 posted on 05/17/2011 8:58:21 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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To: aruanan

That’s an excellent summation of our situation. Thanks.


31 posted on 05/17/2011 9:03:19 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: hatfieldmccoy

Budget bump for later........


32 posted on 05/17/2011 9:04:02 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: politicianslie; Earthdweller; gidget7

Thanks, guys. The situation really is simple. It’s just those with their fingers holding the strings are motivated to keep talking up complexity. The founding fathers had a good solution: you just cut the frigging Gordian knot.


33 posted on 05/17/2011 9:14:54 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: onyx

Well don’t blame Saxby Chambliss. He never saw a Democrat sponsored bill he didn’t like.


34 posted on 05/17/2011 9:27:08 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
Coburn is not a conservative.

Something tells me you haven't the first clue what a conservative is!

35 posted on 05/17/2011 9:27:51 PM PDT by loboinok (Gun control is hitting what you aim at!)
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To: loboinok
I know voting for TARP wasn't conservative.

I know forming this "Gang of 6" to screw the taxpayers isn't conservative.

I know traveling the country telling voters during 2008 saying "Obama is my friend & a good man" isn't conservative.

Coburn ran on "term limits" & now he has been in D.C. for close to 20 years.
36 posted on 05/17/2011 9:44:19 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: hatfieldmccoy

Tom is some kind of peacenik who wants to cross the aisle and sing kumbyah or whatever. He can’t recognize the enemy... obastard duped him, Tom thinks he is his friend. I used to think Tom was a smart Okie but not so much anymore. He has stayed too long.


37 posted on 05/17/2011 9:54:59 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

If you think that makes him less of a conservative, then we don’t stand a snow-ball’s chance in Hell in 12!

As for the 20 years and “term limits.” Coburn hasn’t reneged once on his term limit promises.

He’s in DC because we voted overwhelmingly to send him there, both, as congressman and senator.

If you know of someone more conservative... post the name.

While you’re at it name your senators, I’m curious.


38 posted on 05/17/2011 10:21:58 PM PDT by loboinok (Gun control is hitting what you aim at!)
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To: RitaOK
I would like to love Tom, but Tom was duped by Barack back when BO was senator. He thought they were “friends”.

Tom also stood up for his friend Nancy Pelosi, saying "she's a nice lady."

They think this is only a football game and the Democrats are their best buddies just on a different team while the Democrats are playing to win and for keeps.

39 posted on 05/17/2011 10:44:53 PM PDT by RJL
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To: Cicero

Yep, there are whole departments of the federal government that could go away tomorrow and citizens would notice no differences in their lives but more freedom and prosperity.


40 posted on 05/17/2011 11:00:29 PM PDT by jospehm20
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